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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

~A. E. Housman

Topics: Almost Draw Even Extinguish May Meaning Out Perfect Pleasure Poetry Sometimes Understanding Will

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Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

~Alexander Hamilton

Topics: Always Ambition Cannot Count Extinguish Hope However Left Let Us May Moderate Moderation Option Others Our Peace Us War We Cannot Will

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Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

~Francis Bacon

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We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

~Gaylord Nelson

Topics: Anytime Around Consequences Extinguish Life Must Part Recognize Serious Species Web World You

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